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Minuscule 124 (in the Gregory-Aland
Biblical manuscript

A Biblical manuscript is any handwritten copy of a portion of the text of the Bible. The word Bible comes from the Greek biblion ; manuscript comes from Latin manu and scriptum ....
 numbering), e 1211 (Von Soden
Biblical manuscript

A Biblical manuscript is any handwritten copy of a portion of the text of the Bible. The word Bible comes from the Greek biblion ; manuscript comes from Latin manu and scriptum ....
 numbering). It is a Greek minuscule manuscript
Manuscript

A manuscript is any document that is written by hand, as opposed to being printed or reproduced in some other way. The term may also be used for information that is hand-recorded in other ways than writing, for example inscriptions that are chiselled upon a hard material or scratched as with a knife point in plaster or with a stylus on a wa...
 of the New Testament
New Testament

The New Testament is the name given to the second major division of the Christianity Bible, the first such division being the much longer Old Testament....
, on 188 parchment leaves (24.5 by 17.5 cm). Paleographically it had been assigned to the 11th century. Written in two columns per page, 25-28 lines per page.

Ammonian Sections and the Eusebian Canons presented.






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Minuscule 124 (in the Gregory-Aland
Biblical manuscript

A Biblical manuscript is any handwritten copy of a portion of the text of the Bible. The word Bible comes from the Greek biblion ; manuscript comes from Latin manu and scriptum ....
 numbering), e 1211 (Von Soden
Biblical manuscript

A Biblical manuscript is any handwritten copy of a portion of the text of the Bible. The word Bible comes from the Greek biblion ; manuscript comes from Latin manu and scriptum ....
 numbering). It is a Greek minuscule manuscript
Manuscript

A manuscript is any document that is written by hand, as opposed to being printed or reproduced in some other way. The term may also be used for information that is hand-recorded in other ways than writing, for example inscriptions that are chiselled upon a hard material or scratched as with a knife point in plaster or with a stylus on a wa...
 of the New Testament
New Testament

The New Testament is the name given to the second major division of the Christianity Bible, the first such division being the much longer Old Testament....
, on 188 parchment leaves (24.5 by 17.5 cm). Paleographically it had been assigned to the 11th century. Written in two columns per page, 25-28 lines per page.

Description


The codex contains the text of the four Gospel
Gospel

In Christianity, a gospel is generally one of the first four books of the New Testament that describe the birth, life, ministry, crucifixion, and resurrection of Jesus....
s with only one lacunae
Lacuna (manuscripts)

A lacuna is a gap in a manuscript, inscription, text, painting, or a musical work.The state of old manuscripts or inscriptions which have weathered or been damaged sometimes gives rise to lacunae ? passages consisting of a word or words that are missing or illegible....
 (Luke 23:31-24:28). The Ammonian Sections and the Eusebian Canons presented. It contains the synaxaria. Initial letters are written in red and blau.

According to the colophons
Colophon (publishing)

A colophon, in publishing can refer to:* A brief description usually located at the end of a book, describing production notes relevant to the edition...
 Gospel of Matthew
Gospel of Matthew

The Gospel of Matthew is one of the four canonical gospels in the New Testament and is a synoptic gospel. It narrates an account of the New Testament view on Jesus' life and Ministry of Jesus of Jesus of Nazareth....
 was written in Hebrew 8 years after Lord's Ascension, that Mark
Gospel of Mark

The Gospel of Mark is the second of the four canonical gospels in the New Testament and was probably the first of the three synoptic gospels to be written....
 was written in Latin 10 years after the Ascension, Luke
Gospel of Luke

The Gospel of Luke is a Synoptic Gospels, and is the third and longest of the four Biblical canonical Gospels of the New Testament. The text narrates the life of Jesus of Nazareth....
, in Greek, 15 years after, and John
Gospel of John

The Gospel of John is the fourth gospel in the Biblical canon of the New Testament, traditionally ascribed to John the Evangelist. Like the three synoptic gospels, it contains an account of some of the actions and sayings of Jesus of Nazareth, but differs from them in ethos and theological emphases....
 32 years after.

Text


The text of Luke 22:43-44 is transferred to follow after Matt. 26:39. The pericope de adultera (John 7:53-8:11) is not in the Fourth Gospel, but after Luke 21:38.

The Greek text of this codex is a representative of the Caesarean text-type
Caesarean text-type

Caesarean text-type is the term proposed by certain scholars to denote a consistent pattern of variant readings that is claimed to be apparent in certain koine greek biblical manuscript of the four Gospels, but which is not found in any of the other commonly recognized Categories of New Testament manuscripts; the Byzantine text-type, the West...
. Aland
Kurt Aland

Kurt Aland was a Germany Theologian and Professor of New Testament Research and Church History. For many years he was head of the Institute for New Testament Textual Research and the principal editor of the Nestle-Aland edition of Novum Testamentum Graece ....
 placed it in Category III
Categories of New Testament manuscripts

Biblical manuscript in Greek are categorized into five groups. This categorization scheme was introduced in 1981 by Kurt Aland and Barbara Aland in Der Text des Neuen Testaments....
. It belongs to the textual family - Ferrar Group.

The manuscript was considered by Birch the best of the Vienna codices. It was collatted by Ferrar.

History

It was written in southern Calabria
Calabria

Calabria , is a Regions of Italy in Southern Italy Italy, south of Naples, located at the "toe" of the Italian peninsula. It is bounded to the north by the region of Basilicata, to the south-west by the region of Sicily, to the west by the Tyrrhenian Sea, and to the east by the Ionian Sea....
. According to Scrivener
Frederick Henry Ambrose Scrivener

The Reverend Frederick Henry Ambrose Scrivener, LL.D. was an important Textual criticism of the New Testament and a member of the English New Testament Revision Committee which produced the Revised Version of the Bible....
 "the manuscript was written in Calabria, where it belonged to a certain Leo, and was brought to Vienna probably in 1564". Currently the codex is located at the Austrian National Library
Austrian National Library

File:?sterreichische Nationalbibliothek 2.jpgThe ?sterreichische Nationalbibliothek , abbreviated "?NB", is the Austrian National Library, and, with 7.4 million items in its collections, the largest library in Austria....
 (Theol. Gr. 188) at Vienna
Vienna

Vienna is the Capital of Republic of Austria and also one of the nine states of Austria. Vienna is Austria's primary city, with a population of about 1.7 million...
.

See also

  • List of New Testament minuscules
    List of New Testament minuscules

    A New Testament Lower case is a copy of a portion of the New Testament written in a small, cursive Greek script . Most of the minuscules are still written on parchment....
  • Biblical manuscripts
  • Family 13
    Family 13

    Family 13, also known Ferrar Group , is a group of Greek language Gospel manuscripts, varying in date from the 11th to the 15th century, which display a distinctive pattern of variant readings ? especially in placing the story of Jesus and the woman taken in adultery in the Gospel of Luke, rather than in the Gospel of John....


Further reading


  • W. H. Ferrar
    William Hugh Ferrar

    William Hugh Ferrar , Latinist, a classical Irish scholar at Dublin University.Ferrar in 1868 discovered that four medieval manuscripts, namely minuscules Minuscule 13, Minuscule 69, Minuscule 124, and Minuscule 346, were closely related texts....
    , "A Collation of Four Important Manuscripts of the Gospels", ed. T. K. Abbott (Dublin, 1877).
  • J. Rendel Harris
    J. Rendel Harris

    James Rendel Harris was an England biblical scholar and curator of manuscripts, who was instrumental in bringing back to light many Syriac Scriptures and other early documents....
    , "On the Origin of the Ferrar Group" (Cambridge, 1893).
  • E. A. Hutton, "Excursus on the Ferrar Group", in "An Atlas of Textual Criticism" (Cambridge, 1911), pp. 49-53.
  • Jacob Greelings, "Singular Variants in 124", S & D XXI, pp. 108-111.


External links


  • at the Encyclopedia of Textual Criticism